Index of Tips from the Russian Language Workouts
Workout | TIPS (C) Cultural – (G) Grammar – (I) Interpreting – (V) Vocabulary
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(C) Becomming a Communist in Russia | |
(C) «болезнь – здоровье» | |
(C) Cognates | |
(C) Communal Spirit | |
(C) The Communal Way of Life in Russia | |
(C) Curruption in Russia | |
(C) The Elephant and Moska | |
(C) Envy | |
(C) Exchanging Foreign Currency | |
(C) Friend | |
(C) A Generous Spirit | |
(C) The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill | |
(C) The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) | |
(C) I love and I like | |
(C) Indian Summer «бабье лето» | |
(C) It Pays to Know Russian Literature and Poetry | |
(C) Joking | |
(C) KGB to FSB | |
(C) “Куй железо пока Горбачев” | |
(C) Labor Related Terms in the USSR | |
(C) Line Etiquette | |
(C) More on Exchanging foreign currency | |
(C) National Womens' Day | |
(C) The Oblomov Controversy | |
(C) On Being Direct | |
(C) Poetic Quotations | |
(C) Poetry and the Bribe | |
(C) Poetry in Russian Society | |
(C) Post-War Years | |
(C) Proper Greetings | |
(C) Racial Slurs | |
(C) Relationships | |
(C) The Restaurant Bill | |
(C) Relationships | |
(C) Russia and WWII | |
(C) Russian Superstitions | |
(C) Russians and "the truth" | |
(C) Russians and Other Nationalities | |
(C) Russians and Vodka | |
(C) Serving in the Armed Forces | |
(C) Sometimes direct translation is not enough | |
(C) The Swan, the Crayfish and the Pike | |
(C) Time | |
(C) Trains | |
(C) Travel Traditions | |
(C) United we stand (Russian style) | |
(C) духовный и материальный | |
(C) приглашать/пригласить | |
(C) спекуляция / спекулянт | |
(C) The Verb жить | |
(C) это некультурно | |
(G) Absolute and absolutely | |
(G) Alley | |
(G) To Burn | |
(G) Cardinal numeral один | |
(G) The difference between зачем and почему | |
(G) Diminutive Forms | |
(G) Emphatic Particle ведь | |
(G) English and Russian Sentence Structures | |
(G) Exceptions involving verb tense with prepositions за and под | |
(G) False Cognates | |
(G) To let “пусть” | |
(G) Look vs. See | |
(G) "на машине" | |
(G) Miles | |
(G) More on Prepositions and Particles: "и" | |
(G) Negative Constructions | |
(G) Nominative & Accusative Masculine Endings | |
(G) Participles | |
(G) Participles/Case Agreement | |
(G) The Prefix “недо” | |
(G) Prepositions and Particles | |
(G) Prepositions and Particles (cont.) | |
(G) Prepositions and Particles: "и" | |
(G) The Preposition "от" | |
(G) The Preposition "по" | |
(G) Pronouns in Passive Constructions | |
(G) Sentence Structure | |
(G) Taking Photographs | |
(G) The Russian verb есть | |
(G) The Verb жаловаться | |
(G) The verb принадлежать | |
(G) Verbs for Learning | |
(G) Verbs with prefixes "при" and "под" | |
(G) годы и года | |
(G) ждать, хотеть, искать | |
(G) местоимения | |
(G) нужно и необходимо | |
(G) причина | |
(G) христианин | |
(G) человек, люди, народ | |
(G) этот, эта, это, эти | |
(I) Accord | |
(I) Lost in Translation | |
(I) Translating Emotions | |
(I) Welcome! | |
(I) долг, честь, совесть | |
(V) Andrei's "Feel the Language Better" | |
(V) Animal-like characteristics attributed to man | |
(V) Appropriate use of the word "Member" | |
(V) Cabinet | |
(V) Cereal | |
(V) Economy | |
(V) Employee, Worker | |
(V) Envy | |
(V) The expression “не иначе как” | |
(V) Indefinate Particles то, либо, нибудь | |
(V) Injuries | |
(V) Job titles: male vs. female | |
(V) Logical | |
(V) More False Cognates | |
(V) More Flase Cognates | |
(V) More Flase Cognates | |
(V) More on "усваивать" and "осваивать" | |
(V) More on the Verbs Love and Like | |
(V) More on Verbs of Learning | |
(V) Nerves | |
(V) The Adverb Never | |
(V) Ordering Food | |
(V) Photography | |
(V) Phraseology | |
(V) Professions | |
(V) Shocking! | |
(V) The noun "perspective" | |
(V) The nouns, уровень and степень | |
1203 | (V) The Particle "не" |
(V) The Prefix "недо" | |
(V) The Prefix "по" with Time Constructions | |
(V) The Verb " переоборудовать" | |
(V) The Verb "to loose" | |
(V) The Verb "занять" | |
(V) The verb "следить" | |
(V) The verb "следовать" | |
(V) The verbs вешать, висеть, взвесить, весить | |
(V) The verbs жалеть and жаловаться | |
(V) The verbs заполнить, выполнить, пополнить, исполнить | |
(V) The verbs составить, исчисляться and приходиться | |
(V) The word "magazine" | |
(V) To Frustrate | |
(V) To Hide | |
(V) To Saw | |
(V) Watches and Clocks | |
(V) аккуратный vs. accurate | |
(V) блокада и блокировка | |
(V) бронировать | |
(V) в ответ на, в обмен на, взамен | |
(V) верить в кого или верить кому | |
(V) гимназия | |
1202 | (V) горячий, жаркий |
(V) деньги, средства, финансы, фонды | |
(V) жаль, жалеть, жалко, жалость | |
(V) задача | |
(V) именно | |
(V) интеллигенция | |
(V) людей или человек? | |
(V) мешать | |
(V) направление | |
(V) нормальный and нормально | |
(V) обращать/oбратить | |
(V) общественный, государственный, публичный | |
(V) оператор | |
1201 | (V) Описания родственных отношений |
(V) перемещать/переместить | |
(V) положить | |
(V) практика, практически, практический | |
(V) разве | |
(V) сделка | |
(V) Семь пятниц на неделе | |
(V) слишком, гораздо | |
(V) суть и сущность | |
(V) уже, ещё, всё ещё | |
(V) усваивать и осваивать | |
(V) ухаживать | |
(V) ущемлять, ущемить | |
(V) что это за | |
(V) эксплуатация | |
(V) языковой | |
Remaining Tips will be determined at a later date | |